What Does the Mollymawk Eat?

What Does the Mollymawk Eat?

White-capped mollymawks mainly eat fish, squid, krill, salps

salps
Holoplankton are organisms that are planktic (they live in the water column and cannot swim against a current) for their entire life cycle. ... Examples of holoplankton include some diatoms, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates, foraminifera, amphipods, krill, copepods, and salps, as well as some gastropod mollusk species.
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and offal from fishing vessels taken from the surface. They rarely plunge or dive for food.

What is the difference between an albatross and a Mollymawk?

Mollymawks. The Thalassarche albatrosses, sometimes known as mollymawks, are considerably smaller than the great albatrosses. Of the world's nine species, only two do not breed in New Zealand. From above, mollymawks are dark across their entire wingspan, their dark wings joined by a dark band across their back.

What do black-browed albatross eat?

Diet: Carrion, crustaceans, fish, offal, squid.

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